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Sun, sweat, fruit at Jaemor Farms
Times reporter joins family of workers for a day of toiling to pick crops in the summer heat
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Times reporter Lee Johnson stacks freshly picked blackberries in the Jaemor Farms warehouse. - photo by Tom Reed
Editor’s note: Immigrant farm labor is a hot-button issue for many, with some farmers lamenting they have no choice but to depend on a largely immigrant workforce because white Americans simply don’t last in the fields, others saying farmers must find other options. On Wednesday, reporter Lee Johnson spent the day working in the fields at Jaemor Farms in Alto, not to find answers to those questions but to see firsthand what life is like for those who work on the farm. You can tell a lot about a man by his hands.